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Christina Pacosz Greatest Hits 1975- 2001
Christina Pacosz
Sample poem:
One River
-- for Claire Fejes
A high-hope girl come roundabout
from so far away into a new world,
she fell in love with surging rivers
sundering the earth
and the blue, luminous sky.
But by August the fireweed
had only inches left
to the end of its bloom
and the borough shut off water
in the parks after Labor Day.
Snow fell a week later.
The first storm was a home movie
titled: The Birth of Winter
and she was a woman
tending the Arctic stove,
putting life on simmer, feeding
stick after stick of dead
trees to the fire
near where treeline stops
and cold without end begins.
Raven's wing brushed
greybellied clouds
and merlin welcomed
the blue hood of winter
pulled over her eyes.
The girl from Midnight stayed up late
and listened to the wind.
She started a new song
about the Underground Railroad.
This is what she wrote:
farthest north
is never far enough
for some.
Then she hummed a tune
and added a stanza
about the wary fox
making its way to ultima Thule
through drifting snow
by the old, ivory light
of the moon.
First appeared in Pudding House[/i], 2001, 2002,
then reprinted in Umbrella[/b], Issue 4, 2007.
About the author:
Christina Pacosz has been a writer for most of her life and has had
chapbooks published by Pudding House (One River, 2000 and Greatest Hits:
1975-2001). Her other books are Shimmy Up to This Fine Mud, Poets Warehouse
1976 (out of print); Notes from the Red Zone, Seal Press, 1983; Some Winded,
Wild Beast, Black & Red, 1985; and This Is Not a Place to Sing, West End,
1987. She has been a North Carolina Visiting Artist and poet-in-the-schools
in Washington State and South Carolina.
Her work appears in a hundred journals and anthologies or more over the
years, including Calyx; The Temple; Switched-on Gutenberg; New Works Review
(on-line); Woman Spirit magazine; Exquisite Corpse, Devil’s Millhopper;
Woman of Power; Asheville Review; The Midwest Quarterly; Sing Heavenly
Muse!; Kritya (on-line); The Time Garden (on-line); Earth’s Daughters;
permafrost; Jane’s Stories III; Digging for Roots: Works by Women of the
North Olympic Peninsula (she was an editor of this issue); A Gathering of
Poets; Fresh Water: Poems from the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams. She has
assisted Iranian poet and translator, Farideh Hassanzadeh, with translations
of Iranian poet, Nima Yushij, on line at www.thehypertexts.com. Her poetry
has been nominated for two Pushcarts.
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, she has lived on both coasts of the
U.S. and for the last 11 years she and her husband of almost 2 decades have
called Kansas City Missouri home.
Greatest Hits Series #160 ISBN 1-58998-110,
Pudding House Publications, 2002, $8.95
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